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 Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:04 am
At the first floor, there's a fancy, eerie demon who tells you of the tower. Simple words that echo in the minds of all regulars, a promise that at the top of the tower lie whatever you may wish for. All they have to do is climb the tower.
It's notable that most often, within a few floors, they forget their original motivation due to the inherent challenges of climbing. They think instead of the people they meet, the challenges they face, and the lives they see lost around them, and what they originally wanted fades from mind. They lose their own motivation to find a different one, time and again.
And nobody has been recorded reaching the top. Zahard's kingdom reaches to the one hundred and thirty fourth floor. The hundred and thirty fifth is deemed impossible to pass, but it doesn't seem to be the top.
And, in all things, what you can attain on the other levels doesn't leave much to be desired at the top. It takes an average of five hundred years to climb the full tower, which means that somewhere around the way regulars learn how to stop aging. There are sights, sounds, flora, fauna, friends, enemies, and all the like on all the levels as you ascend.
So I wonder.
What could be at the top of the tower?
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:02 am
After ascending it for 500 years? I guess the entrance to another of those towers... 
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:45 am
Gakre After ascending it for 500 years? I guess the entrance to another of those towers... It never stops. Hmmm....
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:09 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:15 pm
A giant bell that you ring and it opens a hole in the ocean to the ancient kingdom below?
Oh wait...
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:19 pm
LabTech Kestin A giant bell that you ring and it opens a hole in the ocean to the ancient kingdom below? Oh wait... I went up that tower once...it was slightly annoying.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 4:51 am
•○♣☼♣○•
Whatever you desire
'That is here'
It is stated in the very first few pages and mentioned quite a bit during the main plot, really I thought you paid more attention to such important points.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:26 am
Miss Perfection •○♣☼♣○•
Whatever you desire
'That is here'
It is stated in the very first few pages and mentioned quite a bit during the main plot, really I thought you paid more attention to such important points.
•○♣☼♣○•
But what could you desire at that point? Headon mentioned money, glory, and absolute power, wisdom, and happiness, but it really seems as though you would've already attained that by the time you climb all dem floors. With so much in the tower not at the top, what more could be at that pinnacle that supposedly surpasses all else?
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:07 pm
Satisfaction of the climb.
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:47 pm
Divine_Malevolence But what could you desire at that point? Headon mentioned money, glory, and absolute power, wisdom, and happiness, but it really seems as though you would've already attained that by the time you climb all dem floors. With so much in the tower not at the top, what more could be at that pinnacle that supposedly surpasses all else?
You could pitch the same question to people in this world who are perceived to 'have it all' and they would still have things they desire. The pursuit of happiness is eternal and humans are perpetually searching for meaning and fulfilment. There will always be something 'more' people want.
As for what could be at the very top... I'm unsure. In reality it would supposedly change for each person based on their desires or it could be something which fills a universal desire.
Personally I'd like there to be nothing at the top and have the person who reaches the top to realise everything they sacrificed to get to that point was meaningless... However I enjoy destroying characters and depriving them of happy endings and the author could well have a different stance on the matter.
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:31 am
Divine_Malevolence Miss Perfection •○♣☼♣○•
Whatever you desire
'That is here'
It is stated in the very first few pages and mentioned quite a bit during the main plot, really I thought you paid more attention to such important points.
•○♣☼♣○•
But what could you desire at that point? Headon mentioned money, glory, and absolute power, wisdom, and happiness, but it really seems as though you would've already attained that by the time you climb all dem floors. With so much in the tower not at the top, what more could be at that pinnacle that supposedly surpasses all else? An end to all menstruation, duh.
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:18 am
LabTech Kestin Divine_Malevolence Miss Perfection
Whatever you desire
'That is here'
It is stated in the very first few pages and mentioned quite a bit during the main plot, really I thought you paid more attention to such important points.
But what could you desire at that point? Headon mentioned money, glory, and absolute power, wisdom, and happiness, but it really seems as though you would've already attained that by the time you climb all dem floors. With so much in the tower not at the top, what more could be at that pinnacle that supposedly surpasses all else? An end to all menstruation, duh. Presumingly; while maintaining the ability to conceive, right?
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 5:58 am
Gakre LabTech Kestin Divine_Malevolence Miss Perfection
Whatever you desire
'That is here'
It is stated in the very first few pages and mentioned quite a bit during the main plot, really I thought you paid more attention to such important points.
But what could you desire at that point? Headon mentioned money, glory, and absolute power, wisdom, and happiness, but it really seems as though you would've already attained that by the time you climb all dem floors. With so much in the tower not at the top, what more could be at that pinnacle that supposedly surpasses all else? An end to all menstruation, duh. Presumingly; while maintaining the ability to conceive, right? For myself? No. If it were for the world, then yes. But I'd rather not live with the constant paranoia that I'll be the one in a trillion to get pregnant by some "impossible" means, and nobody will ever believe me.
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 6:09 am
Miss Perfection •○♣☼♣○•
You could pitch the same question to people in this world who are perceived to 'have it all' and they would still have things they desire. The pursuit of happiness is eternal and humans are perpetually searching for meaning and fulfilment. There will always be something 'more' people want.
As for what could be at the very top... I'm unsure. In reality it would supposedly change for each person based on their desires or it could be something which fills a universal desire.
Personally I'd like there to be nothing at the top and have the person who reaches the top to realise everything they sacrificed to get to that point was meaningless... However I enjoy destroying characters and depriving them of happy endings and the author could well have a different stance on the matter.
•○♣☼♣○•
This is the author who decided to kill half the tower's population in the very first test as part of the very first test, and had Lahel be Lahel. A nice ending seems far fetched at this point. Though it could be something more like death. Have the heads of the ten great families get up there first and find out that it's the only thing in the tower they never achieved. LabTech Kestin An end to all menstruation, duh. I have to assume that such a thing would come as part of being Zahard's princess. Or at least would be a logical thing to do to 'em, all things considered. Remember, spay and neuter your princesses or they'll go about having lizard children who find your murdering their parents to be quite offensive.
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 6:12 am
Divine_Malevolence LabTech Kestin An end to all menstruation, duh. I have to assume that such a thing would come as part of being Zahard's princess. Or at least would be a logical thing to do to 'em, all things considered. Remember, spay and neuter your princesses or they'll go about having lizard children who find your murdering their parents to be quite offensive. I wish I'd been spayed. I wish it more than anything else in the world. Being a princess would be a fringe benefit.
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